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Cambridge Pre-U Getting StartedIn-service Training
Liberating learningDeveloping successful students
Presentation - Requirements
• 15 minutes for examiner to absorb
• Source materials covering different themes
• Title set by student
• Various formats – should normally include an oral commentary
• Must explore alternative perspectives
Resource Documents
• Will cover different themes
• Are a starting point
• Should lead to a title
• Syllabus requires bibliography - implications
Aaargh, I haven’t taught them about …
• You don’t need to have taught them specifically about the subject matter in the resource booklet.
• The skills and approaches they have learned in the iterations of the critical path will be sufficient.
Global English Documents
• But we’ve done medical ethics, migration and work, industrial pollution and artificial intelligence. How does this relate to Global English?– Skills– Ethical approaches to domination / cultural imperialism– Migration, work, language directly related– Industrial pollution? Language of science is English.– Language of artificial intelligence? Science and English.
Improving titles
• ‘English is a global language.’• ‘Is English a global language?’• ‘English around the world.’• ‘Is the global dominance of English a good thing?’• ‘Should Asians resist the influence of Western
cinema?’• ‘Western business practices in Asia: unethical or
effective?’• ‘Should migrants learn English?’
Preparing the presentation
• Limited to documents v more research?
• Selection of material
• Class teaching v one-to-one attention
Death by Powerpoint?
• What is the most effective / creative means of presenting in the student’s chosen area?– NOT an essay on powerpoint– Poster?– Pamphlet?– Bullets and Graphics– Details in oral commentary / presentation
• Can it be submitted electronically?